Episode Forty-Four: Tumblr | Violating Community Guidelines Podcast

[@maria-sp4lz]

the fact that halsey was a tumblr girlie and a hardcore harry stan who wrote a diss track about taylor swift haunts me every single day

[@ani8287]

and I still stan all 3 of them

[@hotsexyangel]

YESS I WAS SURPRISED THEY DIDNT TALK ABT THE HAYLOR SONG

[@hotsexyangel]

@@ani8287 noooo babes Halsey is trash 😭

[@JosieMaines]

Wait what song??

[@cowmann3555]

what cinematic universe is this

[@theweeklywalrus]

i can’t believe they mentioned john green having a tumblr and didn’t mention the iconic post that got our editing posts privileges taken away💀

[@queenbirbs]

Waited with bated breath for it to get mentioned, then came down to the comments just for that

[@pixie9499]

i wondered what happened to edits and then i saw an edited tweet two days ago 🤷🏼

[@trakiul5556]

@@pixie9499 im not on twitter but im pretty sure you can't edit OTHER people's tweets can you? we used to be able to edit other people's posts on tumblr

[@pixie9499]

@@trakiul5556 oh my gosh no 💀 i didn’t realize that’s what they meant! my whole bad, i should have thought that one through 😂😂 i truly never understood tumblr in my defense so i could never use it anyway

[@trakiul5556]

@@pixie9499 well to be fair to you it's completely bonkers and chaotic feature to have so i don't blame you 😂 there was literally no indication the post was edited unless you went to the original blog; you could effectively make other users say whatever you wanted LMAO

[@nebeker]

convinced that tumblr users (including myself) need a internet purple heart veteran medal of sorts, to signify the longevity of our collective ptsd. thanks for uploading

[@Raven17729]

What do those of us still on tumblr get then? Financial compensation? 🤔

[@emkenobi]

YES.

[@ThePoisonLotus]

A purple shoelace, even

[@lisadee9279]

Yup. Exactly 😂😂😂

[@nebeker]

@@Raven17729 reparations and a free pass to ruby tuesday's and your nearest therapist's office

[@Faith5x]

right now tumblr users are posting cringe en masse as a scare tactic to drive away twitter users looking for a new platform after elon musk took over. the community there is scarily coordinated for such a vast fandom wasteland. the anti-celebrity, anti-influencer, anti-corporate culture makes it a wild ride every day

[@Jonny_Black]

The very thing it needs to survive and Tumblr keeps pushing it away, lol. I don't know if I would rather see Tumblr change into another insta/snapchat/tiktok slash blog frankenstein, or stay the same and die one day.

[@lauranas]

the way I’ve been considering leaving twitter and rejoining tumblr….. I guess I’m not alone

[@dominicdoherty7208]

@@Jonny_Black Maybe its better for Tumblrs form of social media to die out naturally than to try and artificially maintain popularity

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@Jonny_Black it already kind died once when they banned “adult” content

[@abbie_joan]

in my case I just made a little bit of a guide to navigating it and explaining why the shit that flies on Twitter won't be acceptable on Tumblr

[@evanotava]

when people would hack into airport and hotel security cameras to see what one direction was up to…that was HISTORICAL

[@rosalindaocasio3149]

Omg I forgot about that 😭😭

[@KingOfGaymes]

Historical…ly creepy and illegal 💀

[@ghostinthecity]

The dan and phil girlies did this too. They tried to get train station security camera footage when they met for the first time 😭

[@MarianaAnaya-rd1ro]

I fkn loved "tumblr girl" fashion so much. I wanted nothing more than to look like I smelled like cigarettes and starbursts in a maroon flannel, a band shirt with black ripped jeans and combat boots

[@kaseydodge1036]

literally me and now i’m a trans man

[@ourownenemies]

Ohh we all ate that S* up! it was like a generation of us that didn’t feel aligned with emo/scene/hipster culture enough and I feel like the ‘tumblr girl’ aesthetic was the catch all inbetween

[@sylviehgl8738]

@@kaseydodge1036 the queer tumblr pipeline

[@romanticghost7508]

@@kaseydodge1036Same bro!!

[@noturbuttercup]

SAAAAAMEEEE

[@lyla5852]

i was hoping to see the fanart of thomas jefferson as a bisexual transman in a miku binder in this episode bc that's one of the most memorable memes from tumblr to me

[@noah.constrictor3]

miku binder thomas jefferson❤️

[@Aceywacy444]

I’ve literally never been on tumbler in my life and I know that meme

[@nina.robbs565]

same, I couldn't have tumblr as a young teen and it reached my pinterest

[@Gelbraddy]

its so funny/interesting to see brittany talk about tumblr as if its not still going. the current tumblr landscape is so different from what it was in the hipster v fandom era. Now the only people left on it are those of us who have refused to leave, even after the various exodus to twitter and tiktok. We're like that old man from up, knowing this piece of shit house is gonna go down eventually, but we're gonna be here when it does.

[@alleycatgremlin2827]

you said it perfectly

[@jboao]

because it isn't going anymore.

[@alec_online]

“She boobed boobily” is like the funniest thing I’ve ever heard

[@nayi999]

my husband and i met on tumblr because we ran 2 of the biggest pale grunge band blogs in 2015 (top blogs on search lmao) hes from uk im from miami and we hav been married 6 years lol. crazy times i actually went to a tumblr event at art basel and some of the tumblr staff recognized my blog and said "i could tell you're from tumblr." that was the biggest accomplishment of my teens

[@nayi999]

but also i have ptsd and it literally gave my husband n i depression lol

[@myspaceuser]

Oh my god that's so.. iconic??? Lmao

[@nuclearseahorse]

Big slay, good for yall

[@jhart1127]

No but genuinely slay

[@carlybug89]

This is so incredibly cute

[@erin4204]

I cannot overstate the immense impact that Homestuck had on tumblr, especially fandom tumblr. The Homestuck fandom set the stage for basically every fandom drama of the 2010s and fundamentally changed the way webcomics were made and consumed. Not to mention how the cosplayers impacted conventions and the insane Kickstarter… worth an episode on its own, but you’d probably need to call in reinforcements like Strange Aeons or Sarah Z to get the full picture

[@SharkUsingaComputer]

omg a homestuck episode would be... something else.... the sharpie incident, the quadrant system, msparp, hussie, hiatuses, all the spinoffs and AUs (broadwaystuck, keshastuck, heinoustuck, bloodswap), the cultural impact it had on buckets, faygo, con air, ICP, betty crocker, the words "nook" and "bulge" (iykyk, im so sorry)

[@alleycatgremlin2827]

love them BOTH !!! and i would love a homestuck episode, takes me right back to middle school 😂

[@Giaphaige]

Homestuck cosplay was my introduction to it! I ended up selling horns on Tumblr and at conventions for a bit. Do you remember the sea of daves at every convention for like 5 years straight? Daves as far as the eye could see... I also fondly remember when it was updating, and you would get a notification at a convention and see every homestuck cosplayer immediately flock to whomever had data to read it

[@ralz97]

The classic rock fandom was/is the epitome of baby-ing old men. Most of the subjects of our desires weren't even dilfs, they were Gilfs, some long gone. But tumblr was the only way we could live our 70s groupie fantasies and has given us very iff-y and f-ed up views and thought about relationships with big age gaps (podcast worthy topic in of itself)

[@maxhauler9739]

oh man, the days of the classic rock fandom on tumblr. takes me back.

[@pompeii_ash]

let me just tell you that Queen fans are FERAL

[@Hannah-vh3tm]

I think there was/is immense value in people who are not straight white men having a community to discuss this era of music, because often their opinions are not valued at all. Rob Sheffield can write cringy articles waxing poetic about The Beatles, but women + poc + queer people don't have their voices put on that kind of Rolling Stone platform even when they have immensely valuable things to say (The Beatles were /made/ by gay men, and women from all different backgrounds. The band members themselves acknowledged it).

[@MomsFavoriteSpawn]

You mean I could have just gone on tumbler instead of doing peyote with my high school woodshop teacher?!

[@glizzielizzzie]

jimmy page 🗿

[@sam-the-moomin]

I’ve been on Tumblr since 2013 and it’s had irreversible effects on my personality and mental health, and I’ve been looking forward to this episode for so long!

[@fractalJockey]

i love that this is coming out today bc if youve been on tumblr over the past couple days youll know that everyones been bringing back the cringy fandom stuff in an effort to scare off the people trying to flee twitter. its so funny bc youll see the old fandom posts followed immediately by screencaps of people tweeting about how they tried to rejoin tumblr and were met w the cringeposting and think that everyone on tumblr is still posting like that when the site has evolved so much past that era

[@Jonny_Black]

I agree! I'm kind of conflicted, because for me, my experience on tumblr has been great recently. Lots of art, fanart, memes and original fantasy fiction and fanfic-- I think more traffic could be good for tumblr, but there's also the whole "Let's monetize this dead horse site into the ground" thing that a lot of people are afraid of, and that fear is valid. Tumblr is great when it's not seen as a possible money-making machine-- it has the early internet spirit of creativity and freedom that's gone now, excepting Neocities. I'm tentatively waiting for the day that every CEO collectively agrees that Tumblr is a hopeless money pit, and when no one buys it, it will die.

[@mazzyg6186]

26:05 is where the self harm stuff ends for those skipping ahead 💕

[@X._.COCO._.X]

bump

[@the_meower]

thank you 👍

[@jaxxvictoria6802]

Bump

[@havenderail7176]

As someone who has been using tumblr since 2010 I am HYPED

[@nathanj23]

okay but does anyone remember the chokehold twenty one pilots, FOB and P!ATD had us all in in 2014... truly an unhinged time in my life

[@megan6725]

The power a 5'5" 35 year old man in a fedora had over me when I was 17 is truly wild to look back on

[@nanamijoon]

YESSS OH MAN THIS GAVE ME FLASHBACKS

[@apatouros7572]

P!ATD in 2014?! sweeties, some of us were around in 2005 - and oh, what a time to be a live!

[@heathenised]

and then transformed into tøp, melanie martinez and halsey in 2016 💀

[@heathenised]

honestly, tøp still slaps tho

[@1234seanmelia]

I remember The misha black out (where everyone changed their profile picture to misha Collins from supernatural, Remember tumblr con? Or tumblr prom but mostly I learned so much about social justice (racism, transphobia) and even about gender and politics it really thought me what school wouldn’t and I love 💕 it TO THIS DAY And jacksgap slays

[@eminempreg]

mishapocalypse*

[@Kittendoe]

JACKSGAP OH MY GOD

[@courtneyunplugged]

Tumblr was where I first learned about Bernie Sanders. No other platform was giving him the time of day, but tumblr boosted him.

[@wannabedrewafualo]

Misha Collins Apocalypse

[@roux5021]

Next April Fool's Day is the ten-year anniversary of the Misha apocalypse. We must petition General Broski to restart a revolution next April

[@ryanmasin4184]

I started my journey on Tumblr back in 2011, I'd come home from high-school and spend every night endlessly scrolling while doing homework and as much as it scared me I miss how simple and fun that time was.

[@Jordanrileynyc]

Ugh same, whatta time

[@cleoh666]

I miss it desperately, so good for insomnia

[@maiforinger5385]

I get excited when these types of videos pop up because it validates that I did not have a wild fever dream... other people were in the trenches with me experiencing the same or similar chaotic and traumatic posts, and absolutely wrecking our brains in the process.

[@hansolohansolo]

1:04:29 literally gagging laughing @ Sarah mistaking “whovian” for a Dr. Seuss reference

[@honeyswann]

I was part of Dan and Phil , anime, and the “aesthetics” side of Tumblr and god was it a hell hole. I miss it

[@transmaniandevil]

TUMBLR PHANDOM MEETUP

[@stanloonaforclearskin2918]

bro in 2015 i remember how halsey and her fans were the literal punching bag of lana / marina / melanie fans. tumblr was dragging the absolute shit out of them 😭😭

[@markk8248]

Their podcast scratches the itch I can’t reach I love it

[@sage5530]

the only way i know a week has passed is when a new episode of this podcast comes out

[@supersandi2]

In 2014 it felt like Tumblr was going to burn itself to the ground over Benedict Cumberbatch, one way or another. Like, we were absolutely feral

[@BriceQ]

i love watching sarah and the frequent facial expressions into blank stares 😭 my relatable queen

[@jessidavis3006]

Anytime I got a weird crush..tumblr was always there to affirm I was not the only one and make me feel justified lmao

[@localaud9814]

The intertwine between fandom and tumblr is so intense, it shaped my little brain in bad ways but also my god I loved it so much. My love of fandom culture was born there and has stayed strong.

[@ohno2277]

Misha staring into my soul and reminding me of all the fics I read with his character in it, and the girlies talking is just a combination I never thought Id experience.

[@rosac.5708]

The fact that Brittany doesn’t know that Halsey had a crush on Matty Healy and they actually dated 💀

[@mooniestyx]

knowing that Brittany reads Rough Day......I know she's one of us. that fanfic is pure ART.

[@ferarri5536]

As a Rough Day stan 😗 everyone needs to also read "Stitches" by djarinsbeskar

[@mooniestyx]

@@ferarri5536 omw bestie don't have to tell me twice 🏃💨

[@ferarri5536]

@@mooniestyx godspeed babes hope you enjoy the ride 🫡

[@hardsneez]

@@ferarri5536 Is it finished tho? Can't have my heart broken like with Rough Day 😢

[@shachen8]

Can't wait for Brittany to let me know this is out on ig in 5 days ☺️

[@daphl00]

LMAOOo

[@angelaozz]

no fr💀’new ep out now!’ girl it’s thursday

[@Dripense]

KPOP was actually huge on tumblr, I just think you had to be apart of it. It was very comparable to 1D fandom even back then. You weren’t even allowed to Stan more than one group without people actually hating you. It was insane. 1000s of new edits every day. Opening an international world for all these groups. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason why it got so big today. I was going to Kpop concerts in LA because of it. And this was in 2012-2015

[@Dripense]

This also included a handful of Korean variety shows that became very popular. Example: Running Man

[@iseetheWAYVision]

omg being a multistan was a big no-no its insane

[@arielsandoval5595]

i was gonna say!!! as a 1d blog i remember when kpop started getting big and everyday a mutual would change into a kpop blog. they definitely maxed out tumblr and had to move to twitter 💀

[@aspannas]

@@iseetheWAYVision lol it still is, many big fandoms like army uses the term "multistan" as an insult online lmao

[@bunimyu1878]

This!!! I had a different blog dedicated to every group I stanned bc multifandom blogs weren’t cool back then. Also, the “comeback” culture of kpop music lead to infinitely new content which stood out to me since every other fandom recycled their content.

[@SharkUsingaComputer]

reminder that when tumblr FINALLY added a real direct messenger, the feature wasnt immediately rolled out to all users. users had to spread the feature like an infection to other users by sending DMs

[@ripley2995]

I’m like 5 years older than Brittany, so it’s really fascinating to listen to this. I can pick out elements of Tumblr fan culture in my experience on MySpace, Xanga, and Live Journal. Those three really paved the way for Tumblr in my opinion. MCR/FOB/P!ATD Live journal fandom was the unhinged uncle to SuperWhoLock Tumblr Fandom 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💅🏼

[@brangpt]

AGREED! xanga and myspace shaped me. remember piczo?! hahahaha

[@nicoleeliz]

Yes!! I’m 32 and didn’t get into tumblr but MySpace and xanga was it 😂😂

[@mariya_tortilla]

myspace definitely eroded the logic part of my brain, it had to have

[@Alystu]

Yes! I wasn't on Tumblr much but I definitely had a Xanga, I think I had a live journal.😄

[@Zyrada]

I'm of the LJ generation but wasn't ever in any kind of fandom, so I heard about Snapewives for the first time like I was hallucinating

[@countswagula77]

THE DRUGGIE AESTHETIC JESUS CHRIST… i remember being in class in the 7th grade and reblogging just pics upon pics of xanax bars and used needles and soft gore 😭😭 this changed my brain chemistry in an irreversible way. i’m still running an aesthetic blog bc that part of me will never die but i’m so glad i got out of it before i started having access to these sorts of substances

[@itsjourdon]

does anyone remember “tumblr fame???” like pitchblackglow or glitterandnightmares??? acacia??? jamjars??i remember when being on tumblr and having 10k was like, THE achievement. but some of these TEENAGERS had 100k+!!! it was BEFORE instagram and it was the only place at the time that you could really curate you’re own space. i remember people would decorate their blogs for holidays and the personalization was just so fun! the eras! the kelly kapowski tee pic, the lights in your bedroom pics, the SUPREME ERA!!! flower crowns, keep calm and carry on, quality blogs??? just endless HD pictures of people holding just random items!?? omfggggg i’m unlocking memories and trauma rn lmaooo also i still have my harry blog and… the archive is IN- SANE.

[@SarahJoCorona]

my friend at the time achieved tumblr fame by 16yo! Her selfies were on weheartit lol it was stupid weird to be 18 and have photos of both of us just randomly available on pintrest

[@itsjourdon]

@@SarahJoCorona dude that’s insane i have a friend whose pic is like that and i can’t imagine how that feels lmao

[@meagan_thee_artist]

Yes! Like felice fawn turning tumblr fame into a modeling career gets me

[@RyyanAndreww]

2011-2012-2013 on tumblr was peak 🙌

[@honglybongly]

i’ll never forget reading that one really long dean winchester and castiel fanfiction (i think it’s twist and shout) and crying my eyes out

[@andy_sans]

brittany and sarah talking about supernatural at the peak of my hyperfixation I feel like I’m about to explode.

[@wizardinawetsuit]

Let’s go girlies! Monday is saved!❤

[@jasminefletcher8897]

Sarah is non binary :)

[@raemavl296]

@@jasminefletcher8897 that's common knowledge..."girlies" is a figure of speech just like the way "dude" is

[@jasminefletcher8897]

@@raemavl296 oh I gotcha I was just providing the information in case it wasn’t common to this person! Not trying to be rude or anything.

[@SusanForeman1963]

I'm still on tumblr. It's brutal out there right now. We're under siege from the Twitter evacuees ever since Musk-rat bought them out. And the Blaze function, and the crab dance army and the ugly merch line and .... oh God the horror unending

[@Jonny_Black]

Are they even selling any merch lol. I feel bad bc obviously the hell site we love is losing money everyday... I think the blaze function is pretty funny though, lots of great pet pics have come across my dash.

[@bexisdying229]

literally just be as cringe as possible, it drives them out

[@pitifulgirl]

Best part of my mondays is getting to hear you guys talk. Thank you.

[@chasingdaze]

If you want to hear more about the subcultures of tumblr, Strange Aeons has done a few different videos about it and Sarah Z did a PHENOMENAL deep dive on Dashcon (I've been on the hellsite since October 2011)

[@thecerezar]

Tumblr was indeed a home for us, introverts traumatized by our parents in our childhood.

[@lindseyw3392]

I have such deep nostalgia for tumblr. Particularly what I loved was the chronological dashboard and the tag system. I would often go back through certain tags for various reasons--fashion or art inspiration especially. I often think about going back to it just for that but I don't know if it would be worth it, and I definitely don't have the free time I did back in those days.

[@emilyinwards2412]

The moment you said Welcome to Night Vale I regressed, that was my entire personality for like an entire summer. Also my sister joined tumblr when the Mishapoaclypse happened and they were so scared and confused

[@idab6864]

We LOVE Brittany heavy episodes

[@acetabulumshots]

I bet this idea is already on the list, but if not, I think y'all should do an episode on parents on social media. I still cringe remembering my parent telling me I wasn't allowed to have the song "everyone else has had more sex than me" as my Myspace profile song as a kid in junior high. It truly reminded me that while others could be anybody on the internet that I couldn't be so long as my family were my "friends" on social media. SMH, hahaha

[@biaandrade01]

the way misha collins had a chokehold to every single teenage girl is actually insane, i was devoted to that man for no reason

[@nataliademiguel9005]

Agh I love you both so much. I always feel like I’m hanging out with my homies. I need these episodes to be like 2+ hours long. 1 hour just isn’t enough.

[@laurenmcpherson7323]

I 100% would be a different person today if it weren’t for tumblr (for better or worse lol). I learned a lot about LGBT people and life in general outside my small town, but I also came dangerously close to becoming irreparably “chronically online”. Like there has to be a balance somewhere. but also YASS BRITTANY WITH ROUGH DAY REPRESENTATION 👏😂❤

[@Raging_readhed]

What great timing to dive into tumbler with the twitter mass exit happening lol

[@annalee9793]

them using past tense for tumblr like im not on it while listening to this

[@katelynncardoza4376]

QUITE LITERALLY

[@ChelseyJ10297]

Y'all really keep the fans fed. Thank you both so much for all the work you put into creating this podcast!

[@ariannamohajer9233]

please never stop making these! i love the long content and have been rewatching old episodes waiting for new content :)) love you guys!!

[@oddwolvv]

I love tumblr discourse, been waiting for this episode! tumblr defined my high school days, all my friends had a tumblr and even when I was an adult in college I was so so sad when they decided to censor the platform, it essentially died after that

[@madeline_jae]

britany i just want to say that your piece on fan fiction seriously made me cry. i have never heard from anyone on how special it really is. people just don’t understand it if they’ve never read genuinely well written ones, and it really takes away from the work and the time the authors put into them. i grew up on them, and you are so right about how much of a realty shock it is, and how it’s the woman’s gaze. i’ve never thought about why i love them so much. it’s a way for me to escape and i know that’s how it is for others too. thank you for being the person who understands it.

[@ani8287]

tumblr had us all being groomed at the ripe age of 13 🥰 but it was also the most catatonic platform in its prime. I remember going to a “tumblr meetup” in, like, 2012 with acacia brinley and those other tumblr famous scene kids 😵

[@abbakarenina]

1:04:34 sara confusing dr who and the grinch is my favourite part of this whole ep

[@Amylovescats]

Brittany, the braid ponytails is your look. Love it.

[@annjay2581]

Every time Brittany goes into a wholesome monologue about fanfiction she speaks directly from and to my soul 😭

[@alexarobertson17]

Does Brittany have extensions in? Her braids look SO good and full, but she always says how thin her hair is. It looks great! 🥰

[@samigc9087]

Yeah she talks about them in her vlog videos sometimes lol I think they’re tape ins

[@7thCobweb]

i don't think she'd appreciate this comment if she saw it..

[@lowercasename_]

Dear Brittany, Girl. Thank you so much for introducing me to “Rough Day”, The Mandalorian fanfiction. Oh my god, literally a work of art. ARTTT! I spent the night giggling, silently screaming, sweating and crying. No romance novel, fanfic, or love story has got me like this. Um, please recommend more. I truly believe you know where the good stories are at. Thanks! 🥰

[@mirandamarie2328]

I think right now is such an important part in Tumblr history because Twitter refugees are transferring over to Tumblr. There are so many posts that welcome Twitter users and show them the ropes.

[@hanntisocial]

You guys inspired me to look at my Tumblr. I’m cackling at my handle being “hoodrathannah” & most of my reblogs are Gossip Girl gifs with the occasional aesthetic scenery 😂😂. What an era.

[@A-Michelle-c]

I’m surprised the cole sprouse tumblr social experiment was never brought up.

[@kalisederoche]

ive been checking/posting on tumblr multiple times a day for abt a decade now & its interesting to see how the site has grown w us. it was a lot of chaotic fandoms at first but censorship has given it the atmosphere of walking around a museum w your friends. theres still so much art, humor, social commentary, mutual aid, etc, we just cant be as explicit abt any of it. its a very intimate place which i think has been a deterrent for ppl in the past. like yall said, we are essentially reading each other’s diaries every day & i think thats kinda sweet :) thanks for the episode!!!

[@jordantuders2706]

Every episode of this podcast I just discover more and more that Brittany and I had the same childhood

[@CassadillaPerry]

I love how they ask eachother to take it away so they're both getting equal talk time 😭😭😭💕💕💕 love them both sm

[@AnthonyCas]

Sarah moving her mic away while she chews is well appreciated😭😭

[@ElizabethPevey]

God I was on tumblr at its prime in like 2010 as a sophomore in high school. Also I was friends with Barbie Ferreira who's Kat on Euphoria so when I saw her I was like !!! She had a dieting side blog we'd talk to each other on (lord that ED fitness stuff) wild times lol. So when I found out the showrunners wanted to give her an ED plotline and she got mad I was like yeah makes sense don't blame her (also not saying she had one, it truly was the tumblr era).

[@DatSilverWolf17]

Brittany nailed that feeling of going to those uncomfortably big warehouse stores like Home Depot/Lowe's with your dad. It's always those big stores with that silvery finish like HD/Lowe's/Sam's Club/Costco/Circuit City where all the dads in the world congregate

[@fullshewolf]

The complexity of the emotional roller coaster I went on during this episode 😅 Separately, I want to bring attention to the Just Girly Things topic! It was (eventually) highly satirical, and the creator later posted a pic with her wife saying she’d just done the girliest thing by marrying a girl. I recommend checking out Strange Aeons on KZbin for a deep dive into Just Girly Things (and deep dives into other tumblr subtopics)

[@bitteroolong]

i was an aesthetic kpop blog that had like 40k followers in hs 😭😭😭😭😭 this episode is so special to me

[@emilyables5608]

i just recently went on a date with someone who was on tumblr at this time too and i was like omg so you know what it means when i say mishapocolyspe??? and they were like "yes of course" and wow i was smitten after that lol, being on tumblr in the fandom world at that time is such a trauma bond

[@kalekaela]

I’m a tumblr veteran, joined in 2010 and an avid user from 2010-2014. I’m glad I left before it became the toxic hell hole it’s remembered as. I loved my time on tumblr but it’s SO different now than when I used it. Not sure if I would go back.

[@maxevocal]

Tumblr raised me more than my parents, and 👏 it 👏 shows 👏

[@mazzyg6186]

I hadn’t heard of After until yesterday when i binged Kennie JDs reviews of all the movies 😂 I love when the universe aligns like that

[@BalthazarFofalthazar]

Oh this is one’s gonna be nostalgic asf 😅😢

[@chamayonnaise]

"setting them as the lock screen on my ipod touch..." that was unlocking a part of my brain... thank u broski

[@lindseypaige3498]

Brittany and I burped at the same time and it low key harmonized….. Girl power!

[@rosenailedit444]

Misha staring into my soul for the middle of this video is my favorite

[@scoiattolo9715]

i’m sorry but misha colins just staring at me for 30 minutes was hilarious omg

[@elizaisnthere]

Ok I know I’m late but BOY did this episode bring me back. Brittany and I have such a parallel tumblr experience and this made me go back to my old page and see what I was reblogging so many years ago

[@stevenlerner5515]

i mean sororities were sarah and now tumblr is brittany

[@blu3poisonfrog]

November 5th 2020 was a warzone on tumblr. i mean that day was a warzone in every aspect of life, even for someone from europe. but the memes coming out of november 5th 2020 will haunt tumblr the same way memes from dashcon still haunt it. its just beautiful.

[@turtlegurl14]

Ma' ladies, I NEED you to continuously try to film these in public places and see if you can get away with it. Peace and love

[@jules9803]

the part with the kpop twitter vs. 1D tumblr argument is SO TRUE and i've never thought of it that way before. being active online through both and i didn't even make that correlation until now. y'all NEEEEED to do an episode on kpop twitter, i wanna hear your thoughts and discussions about it!!

[@giorap2625]

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[@giorap2625]

Love the pod, thank you so much Brittany and Sarah

[@Mackenziegurl101]

this deserves a part 2. emo trinity, the most iconic text posts, dan and phil, homestuck, so much more

[@blairlarson2206]

I actually did the opposite of self bullying because I genuinely got so many mean messages so I would submit ones saying "you're so pretty!!"

[@heyitsheidijay]

"Peace love unity and roid rage" absolutely just made me CACKLE omfg sarah

[@sarahk.4167]

The bad imagines are the best. I love the transplant/donation ones where Y/N wakes up and asks where the bf is, just for the doctor to ask "Who do you think donated the ... to you?"

[@Bekido11]

This is the episode I've been waiting for, bless

[@smrithimenon5240]

Brittanys joy and mania when talking about tumblr is so funny to watch! It's like we're all at a sleepover rehashing our internet trauma

[@rebekahkostecki3615]

I know they talked about the longevity of tumblr but its really apparent in the meme culture. tik tok has a meme cycle that's constantly moving, what's funny last week is now old and overdone. But on tumblr you can reference a decade old meme and people don't find it cringe. “average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”

[@jameslambos6284]

God I think I'm obsessed with this lady and theyby I can't go a Monday without listening to them!!

[@abbymartin8959]

This is the only reason I look forward to Monday, thank you guys. ❤😊